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Tutaekuri River
The Tutaekuri River () flows eastward for 99.9 kilometres through the Hawke's Bay Region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand into the Pacific Ocean. It starts in the Kaweka Range roughly 50 kilometres north-east of Taihape, and reaches the sea just to the south of Napier, New Zealand, Napier, where the Ngaruroro River, Ngaruroro and Clive Rivers join it. History Ngāti Pārau, which is the local Māori people, Māori ''hapū'' (sub-tribe), are said to have disposed of their waste food in the river. Tribes such as Ngāti Pāhauwera travelled to the river to share food and trade. According to Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti tradition, the river received the name ''Tūtaekurī'', which means "dog-excrement", in commemoration of a feast in the late seventeenth century, when Kaitahi was travelling from Pōrangahau to Oeroa with people from Ngāti Kahungunu, and his cousin Te Hikawera found the travellers en route eating ''kōuka'' (shoots of the Cordyline australis, tī kōuka or cabb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puketapu, Hawke's Bay
Puketapu is a rural community in the Hastings District, New Zealand, Hastings District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located west of Napier, New Zealand, Napier and north of Hastings, New Zealand, Hastings. In February 2023 Puketapu was severely affected by flooding from Cyclone Gabrielle. Water from the Tutaekuri River rose above homes and damaged much of the agricultural land. Marae The community has four Ngāti Kahungunu marae: * Hamuera or Moteo Marae and Rangimarie meeting house is a meeting place of Ngāti Hinepare and Ngāti Māhu. * Rūnanga Marae and Te Aroha meeting house is a meeting place of Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri, Ngāti Hinemanu and Ngāti Mahuika. * Timikara Marae and Te Whānau Pani meeting house is a meeting place of Ngāti Hinepare and Ngāti Māhu. * Wharerangi Marae and Manahau meeting house is a meeting place of Tāwhao and Ngāti Hinepare. The new Manahau meeting house opened in 2022. In October 2020, the Government committed $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti
Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti, Ngāti Te Whatu-i-āpiti or Ngāi Te Whatuiāpiti is a Māori hapū (subtribe or branch) of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The hapū were descended from Te Whatuiāpiti, who was a great-grandson of Taewhā, himself a son of Rākei-hikuroa, the grandson of Kahungunu, and his second wife. Ngāi Whatuiāpiti had a fierce rivalry with Ngāi Te Upokoiri, which was descended from Taraia, a son of Rākei-hikuroa and his first wife. Marae and wharenui Central Hawke's Bay District The hapū is associated with three marae (meeting grounds) and ''wharenui'' (meeting houses) in Central Hawke's Bay District: * Mataweka marae and Nohomaiterangi wharenui on Tapairu Road at Waipawa * Pukehou marae and Keke Haunga wharenui on State Highway 2 at Pukehou * Te Whatuiāpiti marae and Te Whatuiāpiti wharenui on Te Aute Trust Road in the Pātangata area and north-east of Ōtāne Hastings District The hapū is associated with two marae (meeting grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electrical Substation
A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system. Substations transform voltage from high to low, or the reverse, or perform any of several other important functions. Between the generating station and the consumer, electric power may flow through several substations at different voltage levels. A substation may include transformers to change voltage levels between high transmission voltages and lower distribution voltages, or at the interconnection of two different transmission voltages. They are a common component of the infrastructure. There are 55,000 substations in the United States. Substations are also occasionally known in some countries as switchyards. Substations may be owned and operated by an electrical utility, or may be owned by a large industrial or commercial customer. Generally substations are unattended, relying on SCADA for remote supervision and control. The word ''substation'' comes from the days before the distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awatoto
Awatoto is a coastal suburb area within the city of Napier, New Zealand, Napier, Hawke's Bay region, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It stretches along the coast south of Te Awa, Napier, Te Awa and the central city. The northern part of Awatoto is residential, while the southern part is industrial, including heavy industry. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "stream for hauling canoes" for ''Awatōtō''. Awatoto had a population of 309 at the 2013 New Zealand census, a decrease of 48 people since the 2006 census. There were 153 males and 156 females. 83.2% were European/Pākehā, 23.2% were Māori, 1.1% were Pacific peoples and 4.2% were Asian. History Ngāti Kahungunu occupied the area prior to colonisation. Waitangi Mission Station was set up on the north bank of the Ngaruroro River for the Church Missionary Society by William Colenso in 1844. Awatoto was included in the sale of the Ahuriri Block for £1,500 on 17 November 1851. A soap works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeanee, New Zealand
Meeanee is a locality south of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay Region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It was named after the Battle of Meeanee in India (now spelled ''Miani'', but the area has retained the older spelling), won by Sir Charles Napier, the city's namesake. Along with such locations as Clive and Havelock North, it is one of several places within Hawke's Bay to be named after events or people in Colonial India. History Meeanee was the only access inland to Taradale until the road was built in 1873, and was the site of a Catholic Marist mission station from the 1850s. The priests introduced viticulture to the Hawke's Bay region, planting several vineyards and establishing the Mission Estate Winery in 1851, New Zealand's oldest surviving winemaking concern. They also built St Mary's Church in 1863, which still stands but is now a privately owned restaurant and event venue. Economy Meeanee is located on the flat coastal plain sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclone Gabrielle
Severe Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated parts of the North Island of New Zealand and affected parts of Vanuatu and Norfolk Island in February 2023. It is the costliest tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere, with total damage estimated to be New Zealand dollar, NZ$14.5 billion (United States dollar, US$9.2 billion), in which NZ$3.18 billion (US$2 billion) are insurance loss. It was also the deadliest cyclone and weather event overall to hit New Zealand since Cyclone Giselle in 1968, surpassing Cyclone Bola in 1988. The fifth named storm of the 2022–23 Australian region cyclone season, and the first severe tropical cyclone of the 2022–23 South Pacific cyclone season, Gabrielle was first noted as a developing tropical low on 6 February 2023, while it was located on the south of the Solomon Islands, before it was classified as a tropical cyclone and named Gabrielle by the Bureau of Mete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Encyclopaedia Of New Zealand
''An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand'' is an official encyclopaedia about New Zealand, published in three volumes by the New Zealand Government in 1966. Edited by Alexander Hare McLintock, the parliamentary historian, assisted by two others, it contained over 1,800 articles and 900 biographies, written by 359 contributing authors. The Government commissioned the encyclopaedia in 1959 and McLintock started work on it in mid-1960. The encyclopaedia is more comprehensive, and more representative of minorities, than previous New Zealand reference works, such as the vanity press '' The Cyclopedia of New Zealand'' published around sixty years earlier, but not as representative as the later ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography''. A number of women were included as representing firsts, including Kate Edger. Its publication in November 1966 met with an enthusiastic response; within two months almost all of its initial print run of 34,000 copies had sold. After the last 3,000 copies sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake
The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10:47am on 3 February, killing 256,The exact number of deaths varies according to different sources; the ''New Zealand Listener'' article cited below gives 258 deaths, but the Bateman ''New Zealand Encyclopedia'' gives 256. The difference is due to two people "missing" and presumed dead. Some articles add these two to the death toll, while others do not. injuring thousands and devastating the Hawke's Bay (region), Hawke's Bay region. It remains New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster. Centred 15 km north of Napier, New Zealand, Napier, it lasted for two and a half minutes and had a magnitude of 7.8 (7.7 ). There were 525 aftershocks recorded in the following two weeks, with 597 being recorded by the end of February. The main shock could be felt in much of New Zealand, with reliable reports coming in from as far south as Timaru, on the east coast of the South Island. Tectonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahuriri Harbour
Ahuriri Lagoon () was a large tidal lagoon at Napier, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, that largely drained when the area was raised by the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Before the earthquake, the lagoon stretched several kilometres from north to south, and covered roughly 4000 hectares (ha), or 40 km2. The Tutaekuri River flowed into the southern end, and the Esk River into the northern end. Following the earthquake, the Esk was no longer able to flow into the lagoon and ran more directly to the sea. The Tūtaekurī still flowed into the lagoon after the earthquake but it caused flooding for the next few years, and by the end of the 1930s it had been diverted away from the lagoon to enter the sea at the mouth of the Ngaruroro River. The land rise in the earthquake drained much of the lagoon, leaving a smaller estuary. Land reclamation and drainage work further reduced the estuary to its present size of 470 ha. Cultural history Māori named the lagoon ''Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taradale, New Zealand
Taradale is a suburb of the Napier, New Zealand, City of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a predominantly middle-upper class residential suburb, located 10 kilometres southwest of the centre of Napier. The Taradale ward, which includes Greenmeadows, New Zealand, Greenmeadows, Meeanee, New Zealand, Meeanee, and Poraiti, had a population of 22,809 in the 2018 New Zealand census. For hundreds of years, hills overlooking what is now Taradale were the site of villages occupied by Māori people, latterly of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe. Europeans started settling at Taradale in the 1850s, and it was officially recognised as a town in 1886. It was a town district from 1886 to 1953, and a borough from 1953 to 1968, when it merged with Napier City. The Taradale area is home to some of New Zealand's oldest and finest vineyards and wineries, with a wine-making heritage dating back to the 1850s. History Early Māori history Several hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echyridella Menziesii
''Echyridella menziesii'', the New Zealand freshwater mussel, also known by its Māori names , , and , is a species of freshwater mussel endemic to New Zealand. ''E. menziesii'' is an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. They were an important food source for the Māori, but like many freshwater mussels worldwide, are now endangered by pollution and eutrophication of rivers, and the introduction of new species of fish leading to actions via the Treaty of Waitangi claims process. It is one of three species of native freshwater mussels identified in New Zealand, the others being '' Echyridella aucklandica'' and '' Echyridella onekaka''. Taxonomy The species was first described by John Edward Gray in 1843, who named the species after Archibald Menzies, the surgeon of HMS ''Discovery''. Distribution Formerly common in lakes, rivers and streams in New Zealand. Ecology Life cycle Its reproductive cycle is typical of other freshwater mussels, requi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
